MEXICO CITY, January 24 (EL UNIVERSAL).- The Mexican government will seek to distribute the so-called “country vaccine” against Covid-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean, as part of the agreements of the VII Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) and in the Sanitary Self-Sufficiency Plan, which seeks to strengthen the productive capacities and distribution of vaccines and medicines in the participating countries.
The Mexican Foreign Minister, Marcelo Ebrard, asserted that among the seven guidelines of said plan is the purchase of medicines and vaccines in common with pharmaceuticals, as well as “we agreed to give preference in Latin America to vaccines that are developed in the region “.
At a press conference from Argentina, he said that for this reason Mexico “has already been acquiring vaccines developed in Cuba and the vaccine called Patria is being developed in Mexico when we finish the tests and Conacyt presents it to Cofepris because we will be able to offer it to Cofepris in due course.” other countries”.
A little earlier in his participation in the Celac Summit, he exposed the issue of the Health Self-Sufficiency Plan and said that “we do not want to forget the lessons of the pandemic, which by the way we have not come out of it yet, we have the risk at any moment of face something similar again and in that plan it was established, among other things, that we organize an agency or try to guarantee the convergence of regulatory agencies in medicines, in pharmacies, in medical equipment”.
Given this, the Secretary of Foreign Relations requested the support of all the countries of the region so that the agency that is being formed, which was already proposed by the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro in his speech, the Latin American and Caribbean Medicines Agency, can “have more speed”.
He explained that as of Tuesday, Mexico, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Dominica, Bolivia, Honduras and Jamaica have expressed their intention to participate or are doing so.
